Dollar Tree Stores

One of the cleanest and most organized Dollar Tree I have been to. They have a large selection of items and this store is stocked well. The staff was friendly and helpful. I didn’t even wait in line two minutes and they opened another cash register. I certainly will be returning for all of my party supply needs and other misc. household items.

This isn’t really a place that requires a Unilocal review… nobody is going to wonder whether or not they should go to Dollar Tree and consult the internet first, but I had to say somewhere publicly that this Dollar Tree has wedding supplies… and a lot of it. It has everything you might need like say, invitations. Those made me especially sad. This would be cool if you wanted to throw a fake wedding, but otherwise it’s been haunting me ever since. Are people really sending out those invitations? OMGod what if I received one in the mail, I’d have to talk about it.

There’s something comforting about a rule that says each thing is a buck. Not 99 cents, not 1.25… just: 1. The problem is that having a store built around a price seems a little counter-​intuitive. It’s a nice gimmick to get you in the door, but the good times fade once you’re inside.
I found myself unable to escape the feeling of being at an arcade with a hand full of tickets, trying to decide which piece of junk to spend all my tickets on. The reality is that the tickets are worth WAY more (based on what it took to get them) than the items behind the counter, but it feels like you’re not even spending real money… it’s a psychological trick.
If everything costs a dollar, the store makes money by selling you things that are, on average, worth less than a dollar. They either make money by selling a high volume with small profit, or a small volume with high profit. I’m not an economist, but my observation that the store is quite unpopular leads me to believe that the items inside are in fact marked UP a lot.
Having said all that, this is probably the place I’d take my daughter if she has 2 dollars and wants something…(ANYTHING!) new. I’d say «OK, let’s go to the dollar store. You can pick two things!» But that’s the extent of my use for such a place. In most cases, I’d rather go somewhere that prices something worth 45 cents at 75 cents than a dollar.